(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) comes to Virginia for the first time in its history on Monday, January 11th for another hard-hitting edition of UFC® Fight Night™ Live on Spike TV. ... Read More
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Maximum Fighting Championship will introduce the key competitors in the stacked lineup for its most power-packed fight cards ever as the organization invites the media to attend the official press conference for MFC 22: Payoff. ... Read More
One month to go before Megan Fox hosts "Saturday Night Live," so
you've got few excuses not to check out UFC 102 "Couture vs. Nogueira,"
airing live from electric Portland, Ore., beginning at 10 p.m. ET.
Refresh this space for updates and armchair analysis.
10:00 p.m. ET -- First newsworthy notice: the live telecast is
scheduled to last until 1:30 a.m., unusual for a normally-three-hour
block. Does that mean more preliminary footage, or is my Time-Warner
affiliate full of creeps who can't tell time? Jury's out.
10:03 p.m. ET -- Maybe Oregon will sound more exciting if I use
exclamation points. Live! In! Portland! Compared to the hedonism of
Las Vegas, this is going to be a crowd of Quakers. All nipple slips
purely unintentional.
10:04 p.m. ET -- Joe Rogan talks up Randy Couture, a man in dire need
of publicity and respect.
10:05 p.m. ET -- The familiar, soothing sounds of Mike Goldberg, as
comforting as a screeching dog on fire while simultaneously dying of
rabies.
10:08 p.m. ET -- No frosted tips for Goldberg tonight. It’s like Fonzie
without the leather jacket. Brandon Vera is talking up the Krzysztof Soszynski fight. If you listen to Vera talk, you’d think he possesses
the ability to levitate; watching him in action is another matter. The
guy doesn’t exactly have a sniper’s trigger finger. Soszynski will
press the action, though. ... Read More
Some bullet points for Saturday’s UFC 102 card and their likely counters. And yes, this is more or less playing my own Devil’s advocate. Call a doctor.
But: There’s no striking in grappling -- similar to the no-crying-in-baseball-rule; punching Nogueira leaves Couture open for a different set of problems, as well as the additional 50 lbs. of horsepower than middleweight Souza.
Demian Maia has submitted nearly everyone he’s fought.
But: Ed Herman and Chael Sonnen get trapped with the regularity of tuna; Marquardt is light years beyond Maia’s previous conquests. ... Read More
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